Ninib

[ nee-nib ]

noun

, Obsolete.

1. Ninurta.

Example Sentences

GULA, a Babylonian goddess, the consort of Ninib.

From Project Gutenberg

He explains that the seven directions were interpreted by the Babylonian theologians as a reference to the seven great celestial bodies, the sun and moon, Ishtar, Marduk, Ninib, Nergal and Nabu.

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Ninib advances, the storm he makes to descend.

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This process, which reached its culmination in the post-Khammurabic period, led to identifying the planet Jupiter with Marduk, Venus with Ishtar, Mars with Nergal, Mercury with Nebo, and Saturn with Ninib.

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The ferocious character of the 'swine' would naturally result in assigning to Nin-shakh warlike attributes; and as a matter of fact he is identified at times with Ninib.

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